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CHAPTER XV
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When word of the death of Joan de Tany reached Torn, no man could tell from outward appearance the depth of the suffering which the sad intelligence wrought1 on the master of Torn.
All that they who followed him knew was that certain unusual orders were issued, and that that same night, the ten companies rode south toward Essex without other halt than for necessary food and water for man and beast.
When the body of Joan de Tany rode forth2 from her father's castle to the church at Colchester, and again as it was brought back to its final resting place in the castle's crypt, a thousand strange and silent knights3, black draped, upon horses trapped in black, rode slowly behind the bier.
Silently they had come in the night preceding the funeral, and as silently, they slipped away northward6 into the falling shadows of the following night.
No word had passed between those of the castle and the great troop of sable-clad warriors7, but all within knew that the mighty8 Outlaw9 of Torn had come to pay homage10 to the memory of the daughter of De Tany, and all but the grieving mother wondered at the strangeness of the act.
As the horde11 of Torn approached their Derby stronghold, their young leader turned the command over to Red Shandy and dismounted at the door of Father Claude's cottage.
“I am tired, Father,” said the outlaw as he threw himself upon his accustomed bench. “Naught12 but sorrow and death follow in my footsteps. I and all my acts be accurst, and upon those I love, the
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